BANTAY-SABONG: TACOY, MARIANO SPLIT THUNDERBIRD DAKAK CHALLENGE DERBY CROWN

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

TACOY, MARIANO SPLIT THUNDERBIRD DAKAK CHALLENGE DERBY CROWN

TACOY, MARIANO SPLIT

THUNDERBIRD DAKAK CHALLENGE DERBY CROWN

As expected, the 2012 Thunderbird Dakak Challenge 4-Cock All-Star Derby showed the hundreds of aficionados in attendance at the Gallera de Dapitan last Friday, June 8 and the thousands of sabong enthusiasts all over the world, who watch the event live via thunderbird.com.ph, the most intense and competitive battle of the finest fightingcocks that they have ever witnessed fielded by the elite members of the Thunderbird Sabongnation.

Bernie Tacoy’s Ormoc Golden Warriors entry was the first to seal the victory in Fight #43 via an amazing lightning blitz against living legend Rafael “Nene” Abello which was done in 14 seconds flat. Tacoy unleashed four golden blue (gold abuhin) roosters , which each one receiving applause from the crowd for their superb performance.

World Slasher Cup titlist Pol Estrellado of San Pablo City and back-to-back Bullang-bullang champion Tol Mariano of Tupi, South Cotabato face-off in the last fight of the day with 3 wins apiece. More than who will win the match, the crowd was more focused on whether the 14-second winning time posted by Tacoy will be broken. Mariano prevailed in 46 seconds, thereby allowing Tacoy to bring home the special trophy designed and crafted by artist Zandro Castrillo.

Settling for runner-up honors with three points apiece are newly-crowned Bullang-bullang champ Gov. Baham Mitra, Thunderbird Palawan Challenge winner Joey Sy & Pros Antonio, Tan Brothers of Davao, Pol Estrellado, PFGB President Wilson Ong of Dimaguete and Bakbakan 10-pointer Bebot Monsanto of Cebu

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LANDO LUZONG

For the love of sabong : Rolando Luzong was a former managing editor of Totoy de la Cruz's Pinoy Sabungero Magasin; editor of Philippine Cockfights Newsmag of Atty. Clem Abundo; served as Roligon Mega Cockpit PR Manager for four years & General Manager for 6 years (1991-2001); publisher of Karambola Magazine; host of Karambola sa Ere radio program with Princess Naldo; was part of the group that conceptualized and launched sabong.net.ph - the most popular cockfighting website in the internet; conceptualized and started sabungero.com; conceptualized and edited Larga tabloid and a contributor in various cockfighting magazines. Lando was the first to invest in Emoy Gorgonia's Tukaan - the first sabong tv program and also in 2006 conceptualized and started the cockfights tele-magazine program Hataw Pinoy. He is currently a regular contributor to Manila Bulletin's Animal Scene Magazine with 45,000 circulation; a Consultant for Thunderbird Power Feeds & Thunderbird Power Vet; editor of the Thunderbird Gamefowl Journal and PR man for Araneta Coliseum's cockfighting events. He is actively involve in community service projects thru the civic group Tambay Kay Epoy Association which he founded (www.tambaykayepoy.multiply.com) for which he was awarded by the Beta Sigma Faternity. Last May 22, 2010, he returned to Roligon Mega Cockpit to help in the derby promotions and immediately staged the succesful 2010 Hatawan sa Tag-ulan 5-Cock Derby, but had to give up Roligon due to some diffrences with the management. Currently, he writes sabong colums for Bandera (tabloid of the Philippine Daily Inquirer) every Friday and Pilipino Mirror (tabloid of Business Mirror) every Sunday, Tuseday & Thursday. In December 2011 Lando Luzong conceptualized and founded the GAMEFOWL MAGAZINE with Bernie Tacoy and Ramil Tan as publishers. GAMEFOWL MAGAZINE is officially launched on May 14, 2012 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, QC during the 2012 World Slashers Cup-2. GAMEFOWL is now the most respected and is fast becoming the most populat magazine in Philippine cockfightng. Lando's latest project is the live cockfights webiste www.sabongsports.com and then the www.sabongsasugbo.com for which he serves as Operatiopns Manager - "All for the glory of GOD"